RECIPE: Award-Winning Baked Potato Salad

The latest wave in potato salads is baked potato salad, made with baked instead of boiled potatoes (it’s a great repurposing of leftover baked potatoes). At the recent 2011 South Beach Wine & Food Festival, Baked Idaho Potato Salad took top honors in the Idaho Potato Side Dish Challenge. The recipe was created by Chef…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Pasta Sauce

Make a simple tomato sauce, or addmeat or mushrooms. Photo by Trutenka | IST.   A tip from Alissa Dicker-Schrieber, cooking teacher at TheKitchenista.com: Pasta with homemade tomato sauce is one of the tastiest, most convenient and affordable meals you can make. The prep work is quick and simple. Just boil some water for the…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: White Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe

This is a late post. We’ve been busy baking (and consuming) a celebratory white chocolate cheesecake. That’s because today is National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day. We invited a bunch of celebrants, and they’ve just left. Here’s the recipe, served with a raspberry coulis (COO-lee, French for fruit purée). The key to deliciousness is using real…
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RECIPE: Spiced Pecans

Spiced pecans are fun to make and fun to eat. Photo courtesy Spice Islands.   Mardi Gras is on Tuesday, but you don’t have to head to New Orleans or Rio de Janeiro to celebrate. Invite people over for celebratory cocktails, served up with spiced pecans and some New Orleans jazz. (And why not some…
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ST. PATRICK’S DAY: Leafy Greens Recipes

Lacinato kale is also called dinosaur kale because of the bumpy texture of its leaves, which some saw as reminiscent of reptile skin. In Italy lacinto kale called cavolo nero, meaning black cabbage, and other names* (photo © Good Eggs).   On St. Patrick’s Day, many of us will be wearin’ the green. But how…
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